English Heritage sites near Wray-with-Botton Parish
WARTON OLD RECTORY
10 miles from Wray-with-Botton Parish
A rare survival of a large 14th-century stone house with great hall and chambers. It served as a residence and courthouse for the wealthy and powerful rectors of Warton.
SAWLEY ABBEY
14 miles from Wray-with-Botton Parish
The remains of a Cistercian abbey founded in 1148, set on the banks of the Ribble against a backdrop of dramatic hills.
WHALLEY ABBEY GATEHOUSE
19 miles from Wray-with-Botton Parish
The 14th century gatehouse of the nearby Cistercian abbey, which was the second wealthiest monastery in Lancashire. The first floor of the gatehouse was probably a chapel.
STOTT PARK BOBBIN MILL
22 miles from Wray-with-Botton Parish
In the Lake District in Cumbria, this extensive working mill was begun in 1835 to produce the wooden bobbins vital to the Lancashire spinning and weaving industries.
PIEL CASTLE
25 miles from Wray-with-Botton Parish
The impressive ruins of a 14th-century castle with a massive keep, inner and outer baileys, and towered curtain walls still standing.
BOW BRIDGE
26 miles from Wray-with-Botton Parish
This narrow 15th-century stone bridge across Mill Beck carried an old packhorse route to nearby Furness Abbey.
Churches in Wray-with-Botton Parish
Holy Trinity
Main St
Wray
LANCASTER
015242 21120 -Ju
http://eastlonsdalebenefice.wordpress.com
Please check service times if there is a fifth Sunday in the month as all six churches in the Benefice share a joint service at one of the churches. We also have extra activities at times such as Christmas and Easter. All details can be found on our website 'Benefice of East Lonsdale'. NOTE: AUTUMN 2015 - SPRING 2016 Revd Canon Robert Hannaford has left the Benefice to take up a post as full time Minister at St John's Church, Workington. We will have a temporary service pattern until a new Minister is appointed.
Until the 19th Century the ancient village of Wray, settled and named by the Vikings one thousand years earlier, never had a church. The village was laid out as a model agricultural township in the 12th century but no church was built. The folk of Wray were obliged to walk three miles to the Parish Church of St Wilfrid at Melling.
The need for a church in the village became pressing as new trades and industries arrived at the beginning of the Victorian age, and as the population increased. Coal miners, hatters, wood workers, nail makers, cloggers and quarrymen joined workers in the old occupations of farm work and domestic service.
Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster designed the church building. Work started in 1839, and was completed the following year. The Bishop of Chester consecrated it on 1st July 1841. It was a plain, rectangular construction costing £700. The land was the gift of the Reverend Hoskins of Canterbury who had inherited farms in the district.
The best feature of the church is the oak rood screen dedicated to Charles Lavinson Reynolds. He served as Vicar for 43 years, retiring in 1920. It was made at the nationally famous Gillow furniture workshops of Lancaster, founded in the 18th Century. In 1936 friends and relatives erected it as his memorial.
Pubs in Wray-with-Botton Parish
George & Dragon
Main Street, Wray, LA2 8QG
(015242) 21403
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Inn at Wray
When this pub shut in 1997, everyone thought it was for good. But it reopened in 2000 after a long battle by locals to stop it being turned into houses. It closed again in 2007 but reopened in January 2008 after a long refurbishment. It is...